Another Garden Update

Because, seriously, what else is there to talk about at this time of year?

The last dill weed.  It hasn't flowered yet.  Lots of sprigs on it though. I think I'll do a batch of cucumber relish with my next cucumber harvest, to give this little dill weed more time to flower.

Peppers are coming along quickly now.  There are at least 3 or 4 on each plant in the greenhouses.  The ones in the perennial bed haven't started fruiting.  Now which peppers did I plant where? I'll have to check my greenhouse 'map'.

Romaine going to seed.  These were transplants.  No signs of life from the ones that were direct sown.

Yellow beans still going like crazy, but the grasshoppers are starting to do some damage.  Some plants have hardly any leaves left.  Spotted a few snails in the hugelkultur bed as well.  Green beans are slowing down.  That does not upset me.  I left the last row to go to seed.

Yesterday I canned another 4 quarts of dill pickles, and 15 pints of yellow beans.  I'm canning beans now, because I have 30 bags of green, and 20 bags of yellow frozen.  That should get us through the winter.  So I figure extras will last longer canned.

I got a great deal on bananas, tomatoes, and assorted fruit on the cheap rack in the grocery store.  99¢ per bag.

The tomatoes I bought to eat fresh, then mom gave me a bag of tomatoes from their garden.  Then I found the peppers.  Now I'm thinking of doing a batch of salsa.  With red tomatoes.  Go figure, lol.  I started canning salsa a few years ago when I had about a million green tomatoes that obviously weren't going to ripen.  Google led me to green salsa, and it was an instant hit.  It almost feels like blasphemy to make it with red tomatoes.  And what shall I do with all of the green tomatoes I end up with at the end of the season?  But I don't think I have enough red tomatoes to do a batch of pasta sauce.

I did do a batch of pasta sauce the other day.  I cleaned out the freezer in the garage and found a bunch of tomatoes from last year hiding at the bottom.  My big roasting pan full of tomatoes resulted in 3 quarts and a pint.  Is it worth the effort?  I'm not a small batch canner.  All of that farting around and all of those dirty dishes for 3.5 quarts?

Hmmm...  Maybe I should just freeze them.  I'll think on it.  While I'm thinking on it, how about another BLT?  Maybe the 'problem' will go away on it's own....

Today's adventure- Jamaica Banana Jam.  If I can get it done before the boys inhale the rest of those bananas.  ;)  And then I want to break a bunch of rules again, and can cream of celery soup.